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To: Sam who wrote (240674)	12/29/2013 10:22:23 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541056

We did subsidize health care previously thru the emergency room and our health care premiums did reflect that except that, IMHO, the subsidization part of the bill wasn't made apparent for most people. Now it, the subsidization cost, is becoming apparent in the higher premiums the "losers" under the AFCA have to pay in comparison to what they were paying. They can vote on this if they are young an healthy by refusing to sign up in the numbers required to make the subsidization work, and in the next year we get to we get to see the results of that vote. I have no prediction one way or the other as to what the vote will be. There is a lot I don't know about what went into the making of the design of the AFCA and if I knew tlhe details my opinion about a bare bones major medical being the better option (with a menu list of fringes that people could pay extra for) might not be the same. On the surface though it seems to me that bare bones would have been the better way to go.